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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>IIRC google owns yahoo,so Google is still the Hegemon.<br><br><div>> From: spectre@floodgap.com<br>> To: gopher-project@lists.alioth.debian.org<br>> Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:11:43 -0800<br>> Subject: Re: [gopher] Possible to perform item type searches in Veronica-2?<br>> <br>> > I'd be up for seeing a competing Gopher search engine with full-text<br>> > search and itemtype filtering. It would remind me of that Yahoo/Google<br>> > battle that once took place. It's a battle that's now repeating in the<br>> > Firefox browser now that Yahoo! is the default search engine there<br>> > now...<br>> <br>> It's not going to be a battle -- I would be happy to have someone write<br>> a competing Gopher search engine and maintain it. Keeping the V-2 database<br>> reasonably clean of dead sites and up to date with people changing things on<br>> their servers takes more work than I think people are aware of. I'd be happy<br>> to see someone do better. No one's really stepped up though.<br>> <br>> -- <br>> ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --<br>> Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser@floodgap.com<br>> -- Innovation is hard to schedule. -- Dan Fylstra -----------------------------<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Gopher-Project mailing list<br>> Gopher-Project@lists.alioth.debian.org<br>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gopher-project<br></div> </div></body>
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